It may not surprise some of you to know that JaredSIM is not my first company, but my fourth. The first I started with my sister in elementary school. We received a children’s loom for christmas and started making custom fabric coasters for people at my mom’s work. We called them “Mug Rugs” (@copyright 1992) [...]
Archive for July, 2007
18 Jul
Unconventional Motivation Techniques
I’ve read a few articles on motivation and procrastination lately. Everyone in the bay area seems to be trying to be as optimized as possible. I’ve found most of what I’ve read to be obvious or just plain crap however. They usually involve things like “just do it”, or “trick yourself into thinking you’ll only [...]
15 Jul
1-through-N Steps for Beginning a Novel
I’d like to relate something that has occurred not once but thrice after receiving a great idea for a novel. These ideas seem to come from some strange nether place, if not handed from on high, so I’ll add: I’m feeling pretty darn lucky if I get a good idea at all. Basically what would [...]
12 Jul
An energy drink recipe: Green Tea Pepsi
Vu here. For a pumped up energy-drink (without all the added amino acids), I like to prepare a green tea and Pepsi mixture that not only tastes good, but has all the caffeine I’ll need (about 40mg) and all the benefits that green tea potentially offers. Here’s how to make it: Steep your favorite green [...]
9 Jul
The Dangers of a Startup
All the women I meet lately ask me what it is that I do. When I tell them I’m doing a startup they look at me with their big doll eyes like a scared Lana Wood with the mysterious Sean Connery and say, “Isn’t that dangerous?” I usually respond with a simple “Sometimes (dramatic pause) [...]
6 Jul
Organized Database Designing
This isn’t an article on good practices in database design. We definitely wouldn’t be the guys to ask about that. However, after many days of deliberation, and by deliberation I mean yelling, calling each other various names, and wasting several tablets of paper we have finally completed and have some suggestions on how to keep [...]
5 Jul
Plone Sprint at Google
I had the privilege of spending last week at the google campus hacking at the doccom Plone sprint. It was an awesome experience both to work inside the area that justly has the reputation as one of the most awesome places to work, and to take part in Plone’s excellent open source community. Here’s a [...]
1 Jul
Prevent Devices from Waking WinXP out of Standby Mode
I had the annoying problem of putting my computer on standby mode for the night, only to have it mysteriously come back on due to some device activity that I didn’t know about! Here’s how I investigated the issue and found a fix: 1. I opened a command window with start > run > cmd [...]
